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...watching their small children spin gleefully on a painted carousel, to the sounds of My Boy Lollipop. Picture-perfect vineyards announce the town's current prosperity; a Gothic cathedral and 13th century chateau commemorate its noble past. Just 265 km from Paris, the gateway to the bucolic Loire Valley, Angers offers four museums, a feast of theater and music, and canoeing on nearby Maine Lake. "This isn't the overcrowded Paris suburbs," sniffs Angers' deputy prosecutor Hervé Lollic. "This is a place of fine wine and history; calm and quiet." The official town website boasts that this...
When rising Third World incomes meet the shrinking cost of technology, multinationals are betting that markets will bloom. In October Silicon Valley's Advanced Micro Devices introduced a $185 Personal Internet Communicator--a basic computer--for developing countries, while Taiwan-based VIA Technologies plans to launch a similar device costing just $100. Motorola last month unveiled a no-frills cell phone priced at $40; the cell-phone manufacturer says it expects to sell 6 million cell phones in six months in markets including China, India and Turkey. "You've got nearly 2 billion people who will be buying a phone...
...Stubbornness of Harry Reid" [March 28], on the Senate minority leader's success in blocking Republican-sponsored legislation, should have been called "The Sour-Grapes Obstructionism of Harry Reid." Why glorify Reid's antics when there is so much that needs to be accomplished in Washington? Donald Nagy Chino Valley, Arizona...
Rosenblum’s guide on his European adventures is Chloe Doutre-Roussel, a French chocoholic who once scaled the wall of Valrhona’s Rhone Valley factory in order to catch a glimpse of production at her nation’s most secretive chocolatier...
Edward Dunbar seemed to have achieved the American dream. In the mid-1970s, the Castro Valley, Calif., resident started Dunbar Oil with a single discount gas station. When the oil crisis hit, business boomed, and Dunbar Oil grew into a chain of 34 stations strung around San Francisco Bay. By 1981 the company was earning more than $33 million a year...